Small Ga. newspaper calls gays who want to marry ‘perverts’

The column is basically a reprint of an open letter written to the Columbus Enquirer by Richard Cawthorne of Ellerlie, Ga. Tribble slapped a sentence at the top of the letter that he was passing along Cawthorne’s thoughts, and a sentence at the bottom noting that “most … is very true in my opinion and worth repeating.”

The column ran in the July 19 issue of the small-town paper and was also posted on the website of the Fayette County News on July 23.

Katherine Helms Cummings, from Sandersville, reached out to Georgia Equality and has created a petition on Change.org calling for an apology from Tribble over his remarks in the editorial.

“Tell this media owner that this kind of broad-based intolerance and name calling has no place in democratic debate and join us in asking him to issue an apology,” the petition reads.